Product Description

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Becoming a stand strong, clear headed teen who is fearless of making healthy, positive choices-even when it means going against the flow-is a challenge.and that's an understatement! Especially for younger teens, swimming against the tide of peer pressure can be stressful and confusing. Now, with Friends and Peer Pressure, part of the Uncommon youth today series created by youth-ministry expert Kara Powell, you can help the young teens in your group deal with the everyday pressures that come with the territory of growing-up. Twelve sessions of activities and excercises will get teens thinking about how to let God reign in their friendships and how to lead rather than to follow. Plus, downloadable student handouts and additional options are available for every session-find out inside!

Publisher's Description

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Friends are so important to today's youth, and the good news is that friendship matters to God too! You can teach junior high kids how to have healthy relationships based on respect and acceptance in ways that make sense for their lives. Becoming a stand-strong, clear-headed teen who is fearless of making healthy, positive choiceseven if it means going against the flowis a challenge ... and that's an understatement! Especially for tweens and younger teens, swimming against the tide of peer pressure can be stressful and confusing. Now, with Friends and Peer Pressure, part of the Uncommon Junior High Sudy Series created by youth ministry expert Kara Powell, you can help kids in your group deal with the everyday pressures that come with the territory of growing up.

Twelve sessions of activities and exercises will get teens thinking about how to let God reign in their friendships and how to lead rather than follow. Plus, downloadable student handouts and additional options are available for every session.

Author Bio

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Kara Powell, Ph.D., is the executive director of the Fuller Youth Institute and a faculty member at Fuller Theological Seminary (see www.fulleryouthinstitute.org). A twenty-year youth ministry veteran, she speaks regularly at youth ministry conferences and is the author or co-author of a number of books, including Deep Justice Journeys, Essential Leadership, Deep Justice in a Broken World, Deep Ministry in a Shallow World, Sticky Faith, and the Good Sex Youth Ministry Curriculum. Kara and her husband have three children.

How to Use the UNCOMMON Group Bible Studies

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Each Uncommon group Bible study contains 12 sessions, which are divided into 3 stand-alone units of 4 sessions each. This is your leader's guidebook for teaching your group. Electronic files (in PDF format) of each session's student handbooks are available for download on the publisher's website (www.gospellight.com). The handouts include the "message," "dig," "apply," "reflect" and "meditations" sections of each study and have been formatted for easy printing. You may print as many copies as you need for your group.

Each session opens with a devotional meditation written for you, the youth leader. As hectic and trying as youth work is much of the time, it's important never to neglect your interior life. Use the devotions to refocus your heart and prepare yourself to share with kids the message that has already taken root in you.